A paint bike and pedestrian image at a cross walk showing that both can use the sidewalk to cross a road. Image “Une famille a velo” on Mastodon
Life doesn’t have to be complicated. Just a bit of paint allows cyclists to legally use a cross walk (with a bylaw backing it up I assume). #cycling #walking #Ottbike #ottwalk
All the buzz around proposed sidewalks in Manor Park raises an important question:
Are sidewalks ecological?
Our Council Watcher Harry Hitsman dug into the question: www.ecologyottawa.ca/ecological_c...
#OttWalk #OttRoll #Ecology #OttCity
For a local organization advocating for school streets, follow @schoolstreetsyow.bsky.social.
More info: schoolstreetsottawa.ca
Finally, this October, we vote for a new Council. Remember these decisions when casting your ballot. 3/3
#SchoolStreets #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
Feedback opportunity!
@en.ottawa.ca is undertaking a Functional Design Study for Beechwood Avenue.
While this is a major walking, rolling, and biking area, current facilities are patchwork and spotty.
Complete the survey before Apr 10! #OttBike #OttWalk #OttRoll
engage.ottawa.ca/beechwood?to...
For more information on @en.ottawa.ca staff's problematic report on right turns on red, and general prioritization of driver convenience over human safety: www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_delegat....
We know what to do; all that’s lacking is political will.
#RTOR #OttWalk #OttRoll #VisionZero
Want to support making #Ottawa safer for people outside of cars? Sign our petition: www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_petition
#RTOR #PedestrianSafety #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
We should not automatically assign local roads to the car network:
#ottbike #ottwalk #walking #Cycling
#OttCity staff have claimed that permitting drivers to turn right on red is actually safer for pedestrians.
But is this true?
Our Council Watcher Harry Hitsman dug into the data. #Ottawa #OttWalk #RTOR
www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_pedestr...
American Economist Lant Pritchett proposed that changes to social norms generate 4 reactions:
1. First Perceived as Silly
2. Then Controversial
3. Then Progressive
4. Then Obvious
On No RTOR in the urban core, City council and staff are somewhere between (1) and (2)
🧵 1/2
#ottbike #ottwalk
#ottbike / #ottwalk Heads Up!
The corner between Bayview Station and Tom Brown Arena is iced over!
I lost traction completely and my bike almost slid out from under me, even at low speed.
Still not sure how I saved myself, but grateful I did.
I'm sure I gave the people walking a heart attack.
Q: If elected, will you commit to prioritizing pedestrian, cycling and affordable public transit infrastructure over automobile infrastructure in meeting the future growth in travel demand in the urban area? A: YES
Remember, this city doesn’t have a #VisionZero plan, just a #VisionTwentyPercentLess plan. Tim seems to be doing things contrary to his @ecologyottawa.bsky.social survey answers. #ottWalk #ottRoll #ottBike
www.ecologyottawa.ca/2014-11-01-h...
Thanks @bikeottawa.bsky.social for challenging their city staff recommendation against banning right turns on red. It's unfortunate Toronto hasn't seen much advocacy on this matter; not even for their downtown core. #ottbike #ottwalk #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
Learn more about our campaign to protect vulnerable road users in #Ottawa and sign the petition.
We’ll be working on this. #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_campaign
Making this short rail-to-trail connection means that people would have a beautiful connection between Bayview LRT station on the Ottawa side and a connection with Gatineau's RapidBus Corridor transit line.🚈🚌
#Ottbike #Ottwalk #Ottawa #Gatineau
a graph showing declining use of the Adawe bridgefrom 280k to 200k in the first 8 months of the last 7 years
Cycling usage of the Adawe #ottbike and #ottwalk bridge dropped after Covid broke out and dropped further over the following years. My guess is that work from home had a big impact and was not made up by people going for more recreational trips. However....1/2
Ottawa can do better — but only if we push past rigid thinking and imagine safer, more human streets.
👀✨ Where do you want to see street art in Ottawa? Intersections? School zones? Main streets?
Drop your ideas 👇 and help Ottawa help itself.
🧵 3/3
#ottcity #ottwalk #ottbike #otttraffic
Careful #ottwalk and #ottbike, judging by what I'm seeing on my street, use caution! The drivers can't see you, because they haven't cleared their windows!
#EvergreenSkeet
Dog peeing on an enormous snowbank cutting into the sidewalk.
Dog walking up a poorly cleared, snowy sidewalk.
Snowy impassable sidewalk.
@en.ottawa.ca We gonna remove the snowbanks this winter or nah?
And are we actually gonna clear sidewalks to be walkable or nah?
Every winter, it’s the same.
Submitting this to #ServiceOttawa but I’m fed up.
#Vanier #OttWalk #Accessibility
@stephanieplante.bsky.social @marksutcliffe.bsky.social
I hope everyone at @en.ottawa.ca responsible for #OttCity’s sidewalk manual has a long walk on Centretown’s sidewalks this evening they by all means must take. #OttWalk
Yellow truck traffic going in, red coming out.
Where dump trucks, 20 an hour, are going to turn right. And then later left coming out.
Where dump trucks, 20 an hour, are going to be turning here both ways from Bank and to Bank.
Little hidden entrance to Lansdowne where dump trucks are going to be crossing pedestrian traffic going in and out.
As far as I understand it, dump truck traffic is crossing a bike lane and 3 sidewalks on the way in and out of Lansdowne. Yellow in my first image is incoming from the 417. Outgoing in red and through Old Ottawa South not sure how far??? Someone is going to get injured/die #ottWalk #ottRoll #ottBike
A large snow hill on the sidewalk.
A large snow hill on the sidewalk.
A large snow hill on the sidewalk.
A report to the city about snow removal.
Not sure what category private snow clearing is but reported Noel for leaving a large hill on the sidewalk. #ottWalk @ottawabylaw.bsky.social
Bank St. Bridge show a side of the bridge closed.
It's windy out there tonight. Carefull out there #ottwalk #ottbike
#ottawa #ottweather
“While #Ottawa City Council has approved a long-term goal of zero fatalities by 2035, the interim target reveals the uncomfortable reality: for years, our official policy has been that maintaining 80% of our road carnage is “acceptable” progress.” #ottcity #ittbike #ottwalk
Now's perhaps a good time to re-read this reflection by @brigittepellerin.bsky.social on how we could approach snow-clearing equitably.
Stockholm shows that equitable snow-clearing is possible; it's just a question of political will.
#OttWalk #OttRoll #OttCity
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pell...
Pretty rough stuff with the north end of sidewalks along Fisher near emperor being closed for the farm sewer work and people walking down the side of Fisher in traffic.
Even if the north end isn’t fully connected, we should probably plow the rest of it. #ottwalk
